[VAXman(Admin)]

On Saturday evening, after the VIP party, my room hosted a huge contingent of ROSfesters. Tom Smith left a bass guitar in my room which belonged to George Roldan's son. I placed it behind the chair in the corner for safe keeping.

On Sunday, we returned to our room to find it propped open and the guitar missing. I was completely bummed out from my high on an otherwise great ROSfest. I spent the late evening with George arguing with the hotel staff to get them to check the hotel security camera tapes.

Anyway, the guitar was taken from my room by its owner who found my room door propped open when he arrived there at 11:30 Sunday morning. We were long gone by then over at the Keswick Theater. I can only surmise that the hotel's room cleaning staff left the room door ajar.

I'm pleased that the guitar was not stolen and is back in the hands of its rightful owner; however, I am quite miffed that my room door was left unsecured by hotel staff. I am pursuing this issue now with Hilton Hotels.